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Direct linkMarchionni, Mariana; Vazquez, Emmanuel – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2019
In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of an extra year of schooling on mathematics performance for seven Latin American countries based on PISA 2012. To that end we exploit exogenous variation in students' birthdates around the school entry cut-off date using both sharp and fuzzy Regression Discontinuity designs. We find strong effects of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
LeRoy, Barbara W.; Samuel, Preethy; Deluca, Marcella; Evans, Peter – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2019
Since 2003, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has included students with special educational needs (SEN), identified as those with functional disabilities, those with cognitive/behavioural/emotional disabilities and those with limited test language proficiency. While the number of countries and included students has…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Spaull, Nic – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2019
New evidence presented in this paper shows that existing accounts of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in developing countries underestimate both progress and inequality because they do not take into account the large proportion of 15-16-year olds who are ineligible for the PISA sampling frame, primarily due to dropout or…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Freitas, Pedro; Nunes, Luís Catela; Balcão Reis, Ana; Seabra, Carmo; Ferro, Adriana – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
The results of large-scale international assessments such as Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have attracted a considerable attention worldwide and are often used by policy-makers to support educational policies. To ensure that the published results represent the actual population, these surveys go through a thorough scrutiny…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Student Characteristics, Weighted Scores, Evaluation Problems
